Category: Chattanooga Film Fest

Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Red Eye #6: Dracula Sovereign of the Damned (1980)

If you think there’s censorship in America today, well, let me tell you…after the comic book trials of the 1950s, in which Dr. Fredric Wertham’s book Seduction of the Innocent led to Congress having trials amidst the belief that comic books caused juvenile delinquency, the Comics Code Authority was born. Every comic needed the code and […]

Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Red Eye #5: Nate and Hayes (1983)

Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and written by Lloyd Phillips, David Odell (the writer of Masters of the Universe, Supergirl and The Dark Crystal, as well as the director of Martians Go Home and “No Strings” and “The Yattering and Jack” episodes of Tales from the Darkside) and John Hughes — yes, that John Hughes — I […]

Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Red Eye #4: The Beer Drinker’s Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking (1987)

There’s no way I would have ever seen this movie if it wasn’t for the Chattanooga Film Festival. “My father says if people don’t come and see this movie, we’ll starve,” says Tate Sullivan, introducing his father’s The Beer Drinker’s Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking. Fred G. Sullivan only made one other movie and that’s […]

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